Camping El Cares
Santa Marina de Valdeón, León · Sleeps 4–6
A family site high in the Valdeón valley, a few kilometres above the Cares gorge walk.
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- Mountain views
- Family-run
- On a long-distance trail
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Photographs by Storängens Naturcamping, used with permission.
Storängens Naturcamping
Ransäter, Värmland
Fifteen hectares of which only six are used, with ninety-nine pitches, eleven cabins and three safari tents.
Why we love it
The numbers make the argument: fifteen hectares of land, six of them used for camping. The rest is left as it is. Ninety-nine pitches with electricity, eleven cabins and three safari tents, run by a family whose stated priority is the nature rather than the facilities.
That is a common claim and an uncommon land-use ratio.
Best for: space, and the reassurance that the space will stay
Worth knowing
- Hot showers are metered: 5 SEK for four minutes.
- Bed linen is not provided — bring your own or hire it at reception — and you clean the cabin yourself before check-out or pay to have it done.
- The site is open from 30 April to 20 September only, and for the four days of the Bälgspel vid landsvägskanten accordion festival at the start of July musicians play in groups on the campsite itself. The operator says outright that some guests find it disturbing.
The practicalities
- Check in
- campsite from 13:00; cabins and safari tents from 15:00
- Check out
- campsite and cabins before 11:00; safari tents before 10:00
- Bring
- Bed linen — your own, or hired at reception
- Included
- Free Wi-Fi
- Extras
- Hot shower — 5 SEK for 4 minutes
- Bed linen hire, cabins — 100 SEK per person
- Bed linen hire, safari tents — 150 SEK per person
- Cabin cleaning, if you would rather not do it — 350 SEK per cabin
- End cleaning of a safari tent, which is obligatory — 600 SEK per stay
- A pet in a cabin — 150 SEK per stay
- Extra pup tent — 100 SEK per day
- Extra person on a pitch, maximum two — 50 SEK per day per person
What is around it
Walks
- Klarälvsbanan — Ninety kilometres of car-free asphalt along the old railway, for cycling or walking.
Towns
- Munkfors — The neighbouring town; the operator points to munkfors.se for what is on locally.
Days out
- Ransäters Hembygdsgård — The village heritage centre, where the accordion festival, the antiques fair and the line dancing are held.
- Mårbacka — Selma Lagerlöf's home, on the operator's list of museums in the surrounding area.
- Sunne Water Park — Opened in 2006, with slides and pools kept at 25 degrees.
- Selma Spa — Spa treatments, baths and saunas in Sunne.
- Torsby ski tunnel — The operator calls it the world's longest: 1.3 km at between 0 and -3 degrees.
Where it is
Checked August 2026 · We re-verify prices and opening every quarter.
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